12 Days, 12 Wishes: A Disney Christmas Celebration

Get ready to unwrap some holiday magic! In this festive episode of Going Beyond the Castle, we’re celebrating the 12 Days of Christmas Disney-style! Join us as we count down our ultimate Disney wish list, sharing the top twelve Disney-themed gifts we’d each love to find under the tree. From park-exclusive treasures to enchanting collectibles, it’s a fun-filled celebration of all things Disney this holiday season. Tune in for plenty of laughs, surprises, and maybe even a little friendly competition—because who wouldn’t want the perfect Disney Christmas?

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Fred Briley (00:07.638)
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is starting.

Fred Briley (00:32.206)
Let's go here.

Fred Briley (00:47.502)
I think we're good. I don't really know.

Fred Briley (00:54.584)
think we're live. We're definitely live on a couple pages.

And let's do Facebook.

don't want to do that.

Fred Briley (01:16.014)
or just hanging out live on Facebook or anything. We're live on Facebook, but the question is, are we live in our event?

Lori Talamo (01:16.323)
Yep, it looks like we're live on Facebook.

Lori Talamo (01:27.351)
It says, Going Beyond the Castle podcast is live in an event. Sweet.

Fred Briley (01:27.758)
It says we're live. Look at that. So we're live. So now that we've been sitting here awkwardly for a minute and half, welcome back to going beyond the castle. My name is Fred. I am your host. And with me as always is my fabulous co-host, Lori Talamo. This week, I am joining you from fabulous, extremely cold North Carolina. It's 22 degrees here, y'all.

Lori Talamo (01:52.652)
my goodness.

Fred Briley (01:53.94)
I forgot I wasn't in Louisiana. I walked outside with shoes and that was a poor decision. It's cold. It's very cold. But yes, I am here for the week celebrating Christmas North Carolina style. but I'm happy to be here. I'm excited to talk about the 12 days of Christmas going beyond the castle style.

Lori Talamo (02:07.087)
fun.

Lori Talamo (02:19.821)
Yes, fun. I was so excited. I'm still excited. I was super excited for this one when the idea came to my head. Not realizing how challenging it was going to be. Yeah, I'm like, that's going to be easy. And have my, are my favorite things shirt on. Yeah.

Fred Briley (02:30.892)
much work it was going to be. It was a lot of work.

Fred Briley (02:38.926)
I got Rachel's input on a little bit of stuff.

Lori Talamo (02:43.395)
I'm not going to lie, I had Olivia today, we were riding in the car, we tried to go to the live nativity scene with the Dixons over in Gretna. And on the way there, so I was reading Olivia's some of mine, I'm like, help me out, what are some of my favorite things? But yeah, we didn't make it too long because she wasn't feeling good, so we left. It's pretty cold here still too.

Fred Briley (02:52.558)
yeah.

Fred Briley (03:07.854)
It's like 50 degrees there.

Lori Talamo (03:10.295)
Yeah, not anything what you're dealing with, but...

Fred Briley (03:13.134)
Some days I'm glad I live in Louisiana, some days I'm not.

Lori Talamo (03:19.277)
Yeah, yeah, it's, it's cool.

Fred Briley (03:20.942)
Do we have any announcements this week?

Lori Talamo (03:24.195)
So I looked and the only thing that I really saw that was big news, well, one, the Disney Treasure is now in service. So that's awesome. And we'll have a special guest on. Yeah, coming on to talk about the Disney Treasure with us. And then all of our Bluey fans. Bluey will now be meeting in the parks and on the cruises.

Fred Briley (03:31.214)
Hmm. Yeah. So we talking about the company.

Lori Talamo (03:50.785)
So I think that starts in January, I believe.

Fred Briley (03:51.022)
That's so exciting.

But it's only like, it's only like out of Australia cruises. Like, it's none of the United States cruises to start with.

Lori Talamo (03:59.362)
Is it?

Lori Talamo (04:05.124)
Yeah.

Fred Briley (04:08.012)
I think it was Australia and I think it was New Zealand. And then they have no idea when, when it's actually going to be hitting Disney. So we'll see.

Lori Talamo (04:08.121)
fun stuff.

Lori Talamo (04:16.791)
when it's actually gonna hit in Disney. Yeah.

Lori Talamo (04:24.217)
Yep, but that was it. think we hit so many of the Disney updates a couple of weeks ago. Yeah, so...

Fred Briley (04:32.856)
Right? There was a lot. And I still don't think we covered all of them, to be honest.

Lori Talamo (04:39.905)
No, and I will, I keep promising Fred that I will get better in January with the social media. So we'll get some announcements out there.

Fred Briley (04:50.482)
we'll get there eventually. It's a learning process for everyone.

Lori Talamo (04:55.425)
It is. It is.

Fred Briley (05:00.32)
Okay, well.

Lori Talamo (05:03.543)
Alright, the 12 days of Christmas. What's that?

Fred Briley (05:04.962)
Christmas.

Fred Briley (05:09.027)
I 12 days of Christmas, let me pull up my list! Checked it twice!

Lori Talamo (05:10.959)
Yeah.

Lori Talamo (05:15.873)
Obviously I missed, I didn't because I'm missing one, but I'm going to fill it in before, before we finish.

Fred Briley (05:19.832)
See, this is when you really find out who you are, because you're just going to wing it and guess one.

Lori Talamo (05:24.365)
Yeah.

Fred Briley (05:27.086)
Okay, so who's going first? Alright, so backstory I think we had initially talked about Doing like a legit 12 days of Christmas and we were like on the first day of Christmas you get one of this Second day you get two of this and then we realized how hard it was

Lori Talamo (05:42.445)
Right.

Fred Briley (05:46.838)
So then we talked about it and we still did completely opposite things. And so now we just settled on our top 12 things that we would love to find under the Christmas tree from Disney.

Lori Talamo (05:59.747)
Yes, yes. I don't know. then I kind of like I was going back and forth on my gosh, I think it almost would have been easier as I was doing it to say, okay, well, I want one of these, I want two of these, I want three of these. But then it's like so many things like, do I really want 12 or something other than like a 12 nights stay? That would have been a good one. But yeah, no, but I worked it out and got some

Fred Briley (06:13.952)
And we'll all.

Fred Briley (06:20.268)
That would, yeah.

Lori Talamo (06:26.339)
I was reading some of them to Josh and he was like, is it supposed to be real things or like things that you, cause some of the stuff he's like, that's not real though. I'm like, but I want it to be like, this is what I'm wishing for. Yeah. Right.

Fred Briley (06:34.368)
It could be. It could be real. Well, all of mine are real and they're actual things I would love to have. I would love to have. The minor in no particular order, because I've just given up on trying to. Organize them, then I just I just I want them all like they're all just beautiful.

Lori Talamo (06:51.908)
Yeah.

Lori Talamo (07:00.565)
I'm curious to see if we have anything similar.

Fred Briley (07:04.28)
There was a lot of food on mine initially. There was a lot of food items. Okay.

Lori Talamo (07:05.113)
since we didn't talk about it.

Lori Talamo (07:11.085)
Yeah. All right. You want me to go first? You want to go first?

Fred Briley (07:13.518)
So you have to say, you can go first, you have to say what it is and why.

Lori Talamo (07:18.743)
Okay, so the first thing I would love to see is an annual pass without block out dates.

Fred Briley (07:29.635)
Mm.

Lori Talamo (07:29.775)
So that way I can go to Disney when I feel like it. Because I know annual pass holders, there are some blackout dates and there certain things that they can't go for. So no, if I'm going to get an annual pass under the tree, I want it to be where I can use it anytime.

Fred Briley (07:47.596)
I didn't think about that. That's interesting. See, I put in credit pass, but I said I wanted the photo pass add-on.

Lori Talamo (07:50.393)
Yeah.

Fred Briley (08:02.702)
because I love PhotoPass. It's absolutely fabulous.

Lori Talamo (08:03.097)
Yeah. So do I. I get it. I mean, like even when just Josh and I go, I get it every single time. Because even if you don't go and get a ton of pictures, there's you're always going to get something, you know, at least get a couple of that makes it worth it. And then the ride photos are make it worth it too. So.

Fred Briley (08:11.459)
Yeah.

Fred Briley (08:17.976)
Yeah.

Yeah. And it's not that like, of course, you know, in this situation, it's free and I'm not paying for it. But if I had to pay for it, it's really not that much more expensive to add on PhotoPass to an annual pass. Like it's crazy cheap compared to how much it costs to get an actual PhotoPass every time you go.

Lori Talamo (08:40.621)
Yeah.

Fred Briley (08:43.182)
So yeah, I put in credit pass which one I in. That is what I listed as number one. I still think the food items are number one for me.

Lori Talamo (08:43.523)
Yep, definitely. So that was your number one.

Lori Talamo (08:54.263)
I gotcha. Yeah, not meaning in order, just meant is that like your...

Fred Briley (08:56.63)
Yes, that was the very first thing I listed in CreditPass.

Lori Talamo (09:00.739)
Okay.

All right, so the second thing that I would like to see under the Christmas tree is annual family trips to Disney when the weather is perfect. Because the last few years, because of cheer, we've had to go in the heat of the summer. It's not pleasant. We do it. I will, if it's the only time I can go, I will go in the summer. But I'd love for us to have annual family trips when we have nice weather.

Fred Briley (09:15.726)
Hmm.

Fred Briley (09:19.502)
Ha

Fred Briley (09:34.264)
So like February, March timeframe.

Lori Talamo (09:39.597)
Yeah, which we are going in February, but it's not a family trip. It's a cheer trip. Yeah, like whenever I go, it could just magically have good weather. That would be great.

Fred Briley (09:43.182)
Yeah. It's a cheer trip. Yeah.

Fred Briley (09:52.162)
be perfect weather, you don't sweat when you walk around, it doesn't rain, it's not cold, you don't go to Sea World when it's cold out and raining.

Lori Talamo (09:55.413)
Exactly, exactly. It's not cold, it's not hot, it's comfortable.

Right.

Fred Briley (10:07.456)
Yeah. My number two was a DVC membership to the Riviera because ever since I went to the Riviera, just gorgeous, one, just a gorgeous resort. And then two, the food is absolutely fabulous. Like the restaurants good. It's just, we went there for breakfast. The blueberry lemon pancakes were fabulous. Went there for lunch. The pizza was fabulous.

Lori Talamo (10:13.541)
sweet.

Lori Talamo (10:31.064)
yum.

Fred Briley (10:33.642)
And it's just a gorgeous look over the little lake that's there between Caribbean Beach. And, nah, that's all Caribbean Beach.

Lori Talamo (10:44.259)
Yeah, I'm steal.

Fred Briley (10:48.866)
Did I just give you your last one?

Lori Talamo (10:49.231)
Cause I had one. Possibly not, not Riviera though. well, cause I thought about that. I'm like, if I'm going to add an annual pass, then I also need to have some way to stay. So.

Fred Briley (10:52.992)
at the VC membership now.

Fred Briley (11:02.446)
See, that was my mindset. And I can't live in Florida, so I was like, why not just get a DVC membership? That way I always have somewhere to stay with my credit pass and photo pass.

Lori Talamo (11:15.255)
Right. Yeah, it's, you know, we need the free stuff to be able to go and then, you know, it's a business trip.

Fred Briley (11:21.518)
Yeah.

Lori Talamo (11:29.079)
Yeah. All right. Interesting. So my next, which is day three, I want unlimited rides on Guardians of the Galaxy.

Fred Briley (11:40.504)
That's a good one.

Lori Talamo (11:42.477)
Yeah, like I want to be able to just show up and be like, Lori's here. You can get right on. Yeah, it's funny because when we.

Fred Briley (11:46.466)
Just go straight to the front. No line.

I'd like to still be able to go through the cube but without a weight because they really did a fabulous job with that whole cube.

Lori Talamo (11:55.524)
Yeah.

Lori Talamo (11:59.747)
Yeah. Originally when I was like, when we were talking about like having so many of them, I'm like, well, where do I put this? Because I want to be able to ride it often, but I can't ride it too many times in one day unless I space it out some. so I was, I don't know if I was going to keep it at three rides or not, but yeah, definitely on the, on the top, even though I don't have mine really in specific order either, but guardians is definitely on the top.

Fred Briley (12:29.614)
I'm surprised I didn't really put any rides on mine. I put some experiences, but I didn't put any rides, which now I kind of regret because all you can ride People Mover just sounds fabulous after a long day at Disney.

Lori Talamo (12:47.026)
yeah, definitely a nap ride.

Fred Briley (12:48.994)
Next time.

Fred Briley (12:52.814)
Number three for me was Grand Marshall of the Festival of Fantasy Parade anytime I want.

Lori Talamo (12:58.863)
Sweet.

Fred Briley (13:00.436)
Right? To get a ride in the little thing at the front and lead the parade. Have everybody wave at you and be jealous.

Lori Talamo (13:07.915)
I know. I'm so curious, what makes them, like, see a family and be like, okay, that's the one. Like, I'm just so curious because I want to do that. You know, like, hey, let me know.

Fred Briley (13:17.248)
I would love to be the grand marshal of the parade. Like that would be super cool.

Lori Talamo (13:21.965)
Yeah, that is awesome. And I imagine, especially if there's kids, how exciting would that be to get picked just randomly and then get to parade around Magic Kingdom like you're a celebrity, like Mickey? I think that'd be cool.

Fred Briley (13:36.044)
Yeah. Like I'm always super jealous of those people and I always hope it's going to be me, but it'll probably never be me.

Lori Talamo (13:45.847)
Yeah, you never know. Maybe one day.

Fred Briley (13:48.064)
one day. I'll just go around and asking cast members and start handing them $20 bills. See what they think. Who is it? Who do I gotta talk to? And then if that doesn't work, I'll open up $50 bills. The next trip we go.

Lori Talamo (13:53.059)
Yeah, like, hey, can you pick me or how do I? What do I need to do?

Lori Talamo (14:04.121)
There you go. Yeah, all fun stuff. All right, so we are on number four. I feel like we're going through these. So I can't leave out my mouse counselor peeps. So I would love to have annual trips with my mouse counselor friends, which...

Fred Briley (14:11.694)
before.

Fred Briley (14:24.718)
I think we've called it AMTRIPS.

Lori Talamo (14:27.223)
Yeah, we actually kind of started, we do have some like that my agency does arrange like once a year, whatever. But a few of us have decided we're going to try to start meeting annually outside of that trip. And then there's four of us. So we like it, we can meet somewhere close to where one of us lives. So that way everybody doesn't have to travel every year. Cause we really had fun the last time we went just kind of collaborating on things and you know,

Fred Briley (14:34.872)
Yeah.

Fred Briley (14:55.788)
Yeah.

Lori Talamo (14:56.877)
bouncing ideas off and so it's just fun to hang out with other folks like that. And I don't do girls trips typically. Josh and I just never have done that. So it's been fun to get to hang out with those ladies who are well advanced in the travel agency world. So it's fun hanging out with them and learning. So I wanna have some trips with my peeps.

Fred Briley (15:24.396)
I tried to pull off a guys trip. I posted on our agency chat. was like, it was like. They just don't like all. I think they were going on the treasure or something. I can't remember. And it was ironic. That all the females went, it was like all the females were the top sellers, because that's what they went to determine who got to go on the the launch of the treasure. And after that, I was like, all right, where's all the guys at? Like, we need to do a guys trip.

since the girls all gonna go on the treasure and crickets like nobody responded i was like you guys have lucked you know apparently you are not good disney travel agents if you don't want to go to disney

Lori Talamo (16:00.141)
Yeah, like come on.

Lori Talamo (16:05.301)
Right. I mean, who doesn't want to go?

Fred Briley (16:08.526)
What are we on? Number four. This one really hits home, especially with kids after a long day in the park, but always finding an empty bus waiting for me after happily ever after.

Lori Talamo (16:12.099)
Yes.

Lori Talamo (16:26.063)
Olivia was like, should put on there that you want free bus rides or whatever. I forgot how she said it, but yeah, that's awesome.

Fred Briley (16:34.37)
Yeah, just to like, cause it's, it's already such a long day. Like you're already tired of walking and we always stay at the value resorts. So it's already a long walk to the value resort. Cause you're the last one. And then it's of course, every time you walk up, the bus is either full or it's pulling off. So would love to just jump. Yeah. You get there and it's cool.

Lori Talamo (16:53.615)
that's the worst. Like when you get there and you're just like, there goes the bus.

Fred Briley (17:03.214)
Or you, you like, you get there and you're walking up and you're like, we're going to make it, we're going to make it, we're going to make it. And then you get to the front of the line. Then it like, you're going to have to wait for the next bus.

Lori Talamo (17:13.559)
Yeah, and I don't mean this to sound like rude or disrespectful, but when the scooters come and they get priority on there and you know, and then if they have, you know, 10 family members with them that when Josh and I went over in October, which and I'm thankful that I don't need a scooter. And that's why I said I don't mean any disrespect by saying, but

Fred Briley (17:29.518)
Yeah.

Lori Talamo (17:40.257)
a couple of times we were sitting there and then it's like a surprise you turn around and it's like, man, here comes the scooters, but.

Fred Briley (17:45.954)
Yeah, we were that, we weren't that family. When we took my parents back in 2019, both of them got scooters. so luckily it was only the four of us. But it was still, that was super nice to always be like the first one on the bus. Of course, my mom was too scared to drive the scooter onto the bus. So I was always the one to back it up onto the bus. And they put it in the spot.

Lori Talamo (18:04.836)
Yep.

Lori Talamo (18:13.958)
gosh, yeah, don't know if I could do that either.

Fred Briley (18:16.342)
So I always got to be the one that got to ride on the scooter on the bus ride back. So always had a seat.

Lori Talamo (18:23.308)
there you go.

Fred Briley (18:24.362)
So it worked out well, but I, yeah, no, especially like after a long day in the park, you just see those scooters lined up and you're like,

Lori Talamo (18:33.645)
Yeah. Like since you're already sitting, you just, can you just wait a minute and let me get, let me get him. Yeah. Anyway. All right. So this one's fun for me because it's involves my favorite park. so for number five, I want behind the scenes, exclusive animal experiences at animal kingdom.

Fred Briley (18:34.131)
But again, not to be disrespectful. I get it.

Fred Briley (18:39.938)
Right?

Fred Briley (18:49.42)
Animal Kingdom.

Lori Talamo (19:00.173)
And like, I know they have, you know, the, the rhino tour and things like that. Like, no, like I want something that no one else gets. Like I want to be all in it in animal kingdom. Like with the.

Fred Briley (19:03.758)
Yeah.

Fred Briley (19:11.554)
Yeah, cause like, even with those tours, like you still have to like keep your space and you don't get to get up super close with the animals. Like I want to touch a rhino's like little horn thing.

Lori Talamo (19:18.243)
Yeah.

Lori Talamo (19:22.785)
Yes, I want to go with the giraffes. I love giraffes. I want something like let me go and hang out with a giraffe for a little while.

Fred Briley (19:31.726)
That would be cool.

Lori Talamo (19:33.347)
Yeah, that would be fun.

Fred Briley (19:35.18)
I guess I'll tag along with that.

and say that I would love unlimited, like I could show up whatever I want, didn't have to book it, automatically got to do it, but the Epcot Seas Adventure Dive Quest.

Lori Talamo (19:52.633)
Sweet.

Fred Briley (19:53.77)
I would just love. Of course, I'm not scuba certified and you have to be scuba certified, but I started the process a long time ago, so I just got to finish it. But just to be able to go scuba diving in the seas with Nemo and friends and get to see the behind the scenes stuff, the aquarium like would just be super cool. Like anytime I wanted.

Lori Talamo (20:13.325)
That's awesome. You would swim with, don't they have sharks in there?

Fred Briley (20:16.002)
I think so.

Lori Talamo (20:17.871)
Yeah.

Fred Briley (20:19.47)
It's one of my favorite aquariums they do a really good job

Lori Talamo (20:22.703)
Yeah, it is cool. When we went over the summer, I mean, my kids, I already know because I say it all the time, my kids are 16, well, Olivia is 17 now and 20. Like even when we went over the summer, we kind of went in there. I was watching the manatees and hanging out in the aquarium area. It's super cool in there.

Fred Briley (20:38.531)
Yeah.

Fred Briley (20:41.858)
Yeah, and it's just a nice place to relax. And if you're my children, to go up and down the escalators multiple times, it's great. Great spot. So yeah, I would love to all experience, all unlimited access to DiveQuest.

Lori Talamo (20:45.465)
Get some air.

Lori Talamo (20:50.755)
Yeah. Yeah.

Lori Talamo (20:58.925)
Yeah. So this one's kind of a far-fetched wish, I think. But I would like a ticket to visit all of the Disney parks across the world.

Fred Briley (21:14.67)
Just once? Is it just like a ticket that you can go like as many times as you want? It's like an annual pass to all the parks? Or is just like one ticket to every park?

Lori Talamo (21:15.513)
So I was like.

Lori Talamo (21:26.285)
Nah, think one, I would be fine going, you know, like to the different parks once. I'm not, I mean, I don't mind traveling overseas, you know, other countries, but I think once would probably good. I won't be too picky. So, you know, hey, just give it to me one time.

Fred Briley (21:43.255)
I love you.

I want to go to Disneyland Shanghai at some point. We were planning a trip. what was it? I think it was this past year. We were talking, trying to figure out where we were going to go. I was pushing hard for Paris. And I never told Rachel it was because I really just wanted to go to Disneyland Paris.

Lori Talamo (21:49.795)
Yeah.

Lori Talamo (22:10.671)
Right.

Fred Briley (22:12.332)
but flights were like a thousand dollars a person. We were like, we're not going to Paris. We're going to all, all expense or all inclusive resort in Mexico where it's very cheap.

Lori Talamo (22:23.917)
Yeah, yeah, the flights are what kill you. That's why we haven't done Disneyland yet, because the flights over there are just crazy.

Fred Briley (22:25.654)
Yeah.

Fred Briley (22:30.894)
Soon, soon, DisneyLane is happening.

Lori Talamo (22:32.591)
Yes, I'm down.

Fred Briley (22:37.686)
I just have to get Rachel on board. Rachel, if you're listening.

Lori Talamo (22:42.413)
Yep, Josh do. Let's go.

Fred Briley (22:42.678)
Start planning.

I'm gonna do one of my food items and it's, I get it every time. Endless I lava you dull whip floats.

Lori Talamo (22:59.725)
Mmm.

Fred Briley (23:01.091)
from over in Magic Kingdom. One of the best versions of the Dole Whip floats ever.

Lori Talamo (23:08.569)
Does that one have like the little cake pop thing on or is that a different? Yeah.

Fred Briley (23:09.422)
Yeah, yeah, I think it's got strawberry Fanta in it.

Lori Talamo (23:16.319)
yeah. Yeah, I like. I like the whips to the one.

Fred Briley (23:23.69)
I took Matt back in November and I made him try Dole Whip and it was very disappointing, his response. And I was just like, this is the staple of Disney. Like you don't go to Disney without getting Dole Whip. And he was like, it's pineapple ice cream. I was like, no, it's not, it's Dole Whip.

Lori Talamo (23:35.725)
He didn't like it?

Lori Talamo (23:44.559)
Right. Tell him we're gonna erase his show.

Fred Briley (23:49.72)
So he's never allowed to go back with me.

Lori Talamo (23:52.451)
Yeah, I like whenever I go, I don't know, I confuse myself because I want to get the pine because I love pineapple, but they have the coconut soft serve one. That's really good. So just depends on what I'm feeling at the moment. But I do the coconut one a good bit.

Fred Briley (24:02.018)
Yeah.

Fred Briley (24:12.93)
I just, I need somebody to install a DoleWhip thing in my house and then just come refill it all the time.

Lori Talamo (24:21.647)
There you go. Sweet.

Fred Briley (24:24.45)
Yeah, that's one of my favorite ones. All right, where are we at? All right, we're on number seven. I'm skipping around at this point.

Lori Talamo (24:32.399)
7.

Yeah, we're rolling thirties. I would love Christmas at Disney. I know we've been talking about it a lot. That is like high up on my wish list is to do Christmas at Disney one year, even if it's, mean, like I don't necessarily want to do Christmas day. I mean, I think it would be cool, but even just a week before to, to do the Christmas party and have the snow on Main Street.

Fred Briley (24:51.651)
Yeah.

Fred Briley (24:56.138)
in the part. Yeah.

Lori Talamo (25:05.057)
Experience all the things I want to go and I'm sure you've probably seen it. I want to go and see the Christmas Parade and have Tally tell me that I'm That's like he's back Yes, so I want to do Christmas at Disney if I saw I'm no I'm gonna do it next year. I keep I'm willing it to happen Even if it's a weekend trip

Fred Briley (25:15.382)
When she's back, he's not gone.

Fred Briley (25:27.758)
My dad, after we went in September, I kept telling my dad, was like, if you want another, if you want to book another trip, like your seven day window starts now, like you need to book your bounce back offer. Like let's get on it. And he was like, I think I'm going to take one day and just come to Disney on, come to Magic Kingdom on Christmas day.

He ended up not doing it because of some work stuff, but I was super jealous if he pulled it off. Like just to be like to wake up at Disney on Christmas morning. Like that would just be where it's at for me and open presents, have breakfast and then go over to the parks, watch the Christmas parade. That's where it's at.

Lori Talamo (26:00.611)
Yeah, that'll be fine.

Lori Talamo (26:15.971)
Yeah, especially if you go in knowing like, hey, this is not going to be where we get to do everything. It's going to be chaos. We're just going in for the experience, you know, and if we get on any rides, then that's a bonus. But, yeah, definitely one day.

Fred Briley (26:18.542)
It's gonna be payoff. Yeah.

Fred Briley (26:29.059)
Yeah.

Fred Briley (26:33.1)
Yeah, it's on our bucket list. Like one of these years, we almost did it.

in our 2022 trip, because we had the trip, our trip started in 2021 and then just gradually just shifted because that was the time when Rachel and I were trying to get pregnant. So we weren't sure when we were going to be able go or how far along she would be or how old the kids would be. So we almost went during Christmas and then we ended up going in March, which was much less crowded.

Lori Talamo (27:02.35)
Yeah.

Lori Talamo (27:09.422)
Yeah.

Fred Briley (27:09.678)
Uhhhh

Speaking of Christmas, I want tickets to the Candlelight Processional with Josh Gad. But I want to do the dining package and have dinner with Josh Gad beforehand. Yes. Like, just I love Josh Gad, even before he came over to Disney.

Lori Talamo (27:27.753)
sweet. There you go.

Fred Briley (27:35.796)
and started doing The Voice of Olaf. I just loved him as an actor. He's absolutely hilarious and he's super talented, does a lot of really good stuff. But I just want to have dinner with Josh Gad and see him in person.

Lori Talamo (27:49.039)
That would be awesome. Yeah.

fun stuff. Yeah, I think the Christmas stuff is always a hit because it's just, I don't know, it just gets in your feels and...

Fred Briley (28:03.086)
Yeah. And to be like, just to be in the parks, like Christmas is just a great time of year. Like I was taught I was getting my haircut Friday morning and I don't know how me and my barber got on the conversation. But we just started talking about what it would be like to just be a kid again at Christmas time. And like, that's exactly what Disney does in their parks at Christmas time. Like, it gives you that joy.

Lori Talamo (28:03.887)
Disney already.

Fred Briley (28:30.378)
of being a kid again at Christmas. And they just do really good job of it.

Lori Talamo (28:34.849)
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I think, I don't know. I don't want to be a downer. My Christmases as when I was younger were a little different. And so now like having kids and getting to experience it through, know, through their eyes and seeing, you know, what it would be like, or should be like is super fun. I think that's why I've been overkill, you know, a lot is just letting them experience that.

Fred Briley (28:57.55)
Yeah, that's cool.

Fred Briley (29:04.43)
Yeah, giving them something you didn't get to have.

Lori Talamo (29:07.649)
Yep, for sure.

Fred Briley (29:08.546)
Yeah, I get that.

Lori Talamo (29:11.735)
Alright, number eight is a fun one, I think. I want to be a character attendant for a day and get to walk around with Minnie Mouse. No?

Fred Briley (29:21.622)
Mm-hmm. Sorry. No. The whole character-attending part just no, because like I'd have like I'd end up arm barring somebody that tried to come up and like good on them because they are super talented at their jobs of, know, keeping the characters on track. you know, I've you know, I've come across a couple that.

Lori Talamo (29:32.664)
Yeah.

Fred Briley (29:49.656)
had to steer us away and they just, they do a really good job of it. I wouldn't be good at that. I would be like, back up. And I didn't know getting fired like day one. Yeah.

Lori Talamo (29:56.068)
Right? You're too close. Yeah. I guess just to hang out with Minnie Mouse all day would be cool. Yeah.

Fred Briley (30:01.964)
That would be cool though.

Lori Talamo (30:06.583)
my tattoo inspiration, many most.

Fred Briley (30:06.862)
Yeah.

Fred Briley (30:12.46)
You are obsessed with Minnie Mouse. I thought you were going to say it was a character escort for Minnie Mouse. Was your dad to inspiration?

Lori Talamo (30:21.303)
Yeah, Minnie. Minnie's my girl.

Fred Briley (30:23.95)
I'm gonna save that one for last. I'm going to say this one's kind of just boring, but I really want and I could just buy it, but I really want the Tower of Terror Spirit Jersey because it went out of stock so quickly. it's Tower of Terror's love that ride favorite ride at Hollywood Studios. And I never got the Tower of Terror Spirit Jersey. Now it's like

$180 on eBay.

Lori Talamo (30:56.097)
On eBay, yeah. Yep, I couldn't tell you because that is one ride I've never done and I'll never do.

Fred Briley (31:04.59)
I'm missing out. It's over like it's over like that. Like you just close your eyes, take deep breaths. You're on the ground. It's fine.

Lori Talamo (31:13.155)
Yeah, I don't know. I feel like I would have so much anxiety. It's crazy. And I think we've talked about it. It's not. I mean, I don't like heights. It's just like not knowing when it's going to drop the anxiety that I would have just sitting there like anticipating the drop is worse than the actual drop itself because I don't mind necessarily the drop. It's just not knowing when it's coming. We we

Fred Briley (31:19.427)
We have.

Fred Briley (31:35.342)
I think that's my favorite part.

Lori Talamo (31:39.247)
Gosh we went to Six Flags when because my grandmother used to take my brother and I to Six Flags Every summer my uncle lived in Houston and they had a ride there that was similar where it went up And so when you're on the ground you can hear three beeps and at three beeps it it drops So I'm like, okay three once I hear the third very third beep. I know I'm getting ready to go No, when you're up in the air, you can't hear it

Fred Briley (32:06.273)
Mm-mm.

Lori Talamo (32:06.401)
And so it felt, and then when I, and I think that's probably why I have a fear of it. Cause now I just remember like when we got off, I had to sit, like I was shaken, I was pale. was like, so I just, have, I guess I have a fear because of that, that incident scarred me. So I don't know.

Fred Briley (32:22.38)
Yeah, I don't like heights. But I just close my eyes and eventually it's over. And before I know it, I'm plummeting back to the ground and it's fine. I do appreciate that one. Like I don't like. Like there was one at Cedar Point that was just like four pillars. And you were just out in the open and like I just raised you up. Not a fan of that one, just because like I can like look down and I'm like, nope.

Lori Talamo (32:43.192)
Yeah.

Mm-mm. You can see. Yeah.

Fred Briley (32:49.678)
But in Tower of Terror, like, I have no idea, like, that it's high or where we're at in relation. So, and like I said, love the whole anticipation of just like sitting there and then just so much fun. that was mine. Okay. So we got four left. Three left. Yeah. Nine, 10, 11, 12. Yes. Four left.

Lori Talamo (32:52.431)
Yeah.

Lori Talamo (33:03.16)
Yeah.

Lori Talamo (33:11.119)
So we're on nine, right? Yep, we're on number nine.

We're rolling through too, but that's good because I know it's late for you.

Fred Briley (33:20.204)
Yeah, it's.

Lori Talamo (33:23.023)
So my next one, I want unlimited free Premier Pass access.

Fred Briley (33:29.445)
I thought about that one.

Lori Talamo (33:32.131)
But you know what I just thought about? If I get an annual pass, I guess I don't need it. But I already have it on there. So we're going to roll with it.

Fred Briley (33:38.082)
Yeah, you're on the side with it. But if you have the annual pass, like that just makes every trip even better because now you have the annual pass to go whenever you want. yeah, then you have the premier pass to look at all the peasants as you walk by them saying, suck it nerds then go get on the line right before them.

Lori Talamo (33:50.668)
and that's right. And then the pre-map pass can get me in the rides.

Lori Talamo (33:58.735)
Yeah.

Right. It's Lee. I don't know what I was thinking. Yeah, no, I want both of them. And it's gonna be amazing. Yeah.

Fred Briley (34:05.933)
Yeah, you do.

Yeah, now I thought about putting Premier Pass, but I was like, I don't mind waiting. And if I'm there all the time, like it is what it is. I can just go whenever I want. I'll focus. I'll go for, you know, one evening and I'll go ride a seven doors mind drain and then I'll go home.

Lori Talamo (34:25.561)
Yeah, I have a guy that's going next week and he booked six days of Premier Pass and three days of Multi Pass.

Fred Briley (34:37.582)
I really wish we got commission off of that.

Lori Talamo (34:40.589)
Yeah, same. Because he's typically a client that would have booked VIP prior to Premier Pass, so... Now well.

Fred Briley (34:46.509)
Yeah.

Fred Briley (34:49.908)
Love-hate relationship with travel agents and Premier Pass versus VIP.

Lori Talamo (34:55.31)
Yeah.

Fred Briley (34:57.294)
speaking of VIP, I think I would love it's part of the tour, but I would love access to the underground tunnels at magic kingdom. Just whatever I want. can just boop front to the back of the park. Use the tunnels. All access back. Yeah. All right. Trying to get out of the park at the end of the night after happily ever after just take the tunnels.

Lori Talamo (35:16.589)
Yeah, like, especially when it's crowded, like, let me just get through here.

Lori Talamo (35:28.033)
and pop right out. Yeah, that would be sweet.

Fred Briley (35:28.802)
wave at Mickey without a head on, like as he's walking by, like great time.

Lori Talamo (35:32.206)
Right. As long as you don't have the girls. Like, Roddy got traumatized at church.

Fred Briley (35:39.0)
I wouldn't make them, I'd make them walk. I said, I want the pass, not them. They still gotta use the pass. Yep.

Lori Talamo (35:43.427)
I gotcha. Only for you. They're not included. Sweet. All right. So for number 10, I want a personal VIP table at Yakin Yeti. And so I could just go eat there anytime I want. Don't need a reservation. Just sit up and say, Hey, I'm here. Where's my table? Let's go.

Fred Briley (36:00.302)
Mmm.

Fred Briley (36:12.408)
I've never eaten a yak and yeti.

Lori Talamo (36:15.12)
it's so good. Now it's like, Tusker House or...

Fred Briley (36:16.94)
We've always eaten at a, not, yeah, I want to say John Bo house, but yeah, we've always eaten at Tusker house. But I know Yakin, yeah, hear Yakin yet. He's so much better.

Lori Talamo (36:25.517)
Yeah.

Lori Talamo (36:29.731)
Man, it's so good. And like every time we go, it's and we did try something different when we went in October, because we went in June and we went back in October. We had something different each time. Usually I get the ahi tuna nachos, which are amazing. I mean, so good. It's it's large. There's hopefully, you know, like if somebody shares or whatever, because if not, it's it's a lot.

Fred Briley (36:41.741)
Yeah.

Fred Briley (36:47.466)
sounds good.

Lori Talamo (36:55.971)
When we went in June, Olivia and I got it. then even like Josh and Braden even ate some from it. was so much. But it's just so good. They have such a variety.

Fred Briley (37:03.0)
See, this one, you what love about Disney food? You get so much food. beautiful.

Lori Talamo (37:08.493)
Yeah.

Fred Briley (37:11.726)
I'm saving my last food one for last because it's possibly my favorite.

Lori Talamo (37:12.559)
So that's it.

Lori Talamo (37:18.573)
Yeah, I have a food one for last too.

Fred Briley (37:25.654)
All expense pay trip to Alani. Just cause I, one, have never been to Hawaii. Always wanted to go. And two, it's Alani. It's Lilo and Stitch. It's Polynesian. Like, it's just fabulous.

Lori Talamo (37:39.331)
Yeah, I had that on my list. And then I took it off only. So even though I came up with the topic, I didn't understand the assignment, I guess, because I had threw in like a little bit of universal and sit in. was like, wait, no, just Disney. So I went and wiped stuff out. yeah, I definitely want to go to that too.

Fred Briley (37:39.916)
That was like... Did you?

Fred Briley (37:53.953)
Yeah.

Fred Briley (37:59.854)
I tried to think like outside the parks, like, cause I started running out of things and I was like, what can I do that's outside the parks? Kind of like your whole one ticket to each park. I would love to go to a lot.

Lori Talamo (38:03.213)
Yeah.

Lori Talamo (38:12.429)
Yeah.

Me too. I've tried. If we go to Hawaii, doesn't have to be Disney. But it's not typical Disney. right. Yeah, it's just an all-inclusive, well, not all-inclusive, but it's a resort.

Fred Briley (38:17.995)
I have it.

Fred Briley (38:22.83)
It's not Disney. It's just you're surrounded by Lilo and Stitch. It's fine.

Yeah. No, it's not all inclusive. I wish it was all inclusive.

Lori Talamo (38:36.109)
Yeah, fun stuff.

Fred Briley (38:39.118)
Two left.

Lori Talamo (38:41.015)
All right, so this is one where I kind of stole your idea. So if I'm gonna have an annual pass, I need somewhere to stay. So I want to be able to stay at Poly. I've never stayed there. Yeah, I would, I know, but I love the Poly. Like, even though I've never stayed there.

Fred Briley (38:51.726)
I thought you were gonna say animal feed dogs.

Fred Briley (39:03.787)
It's a gorgeous resort.

Lori Talamo (39:04.259)
I just, don't know. It's so pretty. And then now with the tower opening and they've posted all of those pictures of the tower and it just looks so pretty. Like I want to stay there. It's on my list.

Fred Briley (39:09.069)
Yeah.

Fred Briley (39:15.32)
There's so much good food there. And it's just like a, it's a primo spot, like right across from Magic Kingdom. So you got like a great view of the fireworks at night. Yeah. Like it's just one day, one day I'll stay at Polynesian.

Lori Talamo (39:23.747)
Yes, you can sit out and watch the fireworks. Yeah.

Lori Talamo (39:34.273)
Me too, me too. It's on my list of deluxe resorts.

Fred Briley (39:39.5)
Yeah. This one I'm going to say is Rachel's wish because she wrote it down and as per our conversation before, I don't wear them. But Rachel put endless festive Mickey ears.

Lori Talamo (39:57.455)
Cool. That's why I had to go with just Christmas balls because I didn't have a Christmas ears to match my Christmas thing shirt.

Fred Briley (40:00.632)
See, there you go.

Fred Briley (40:06.252)
And they don't make fest they don't make ears for men like although there is this one company out there that makes Mickey Mouse ears that are magnets that can attach to your hat. I'm trying to get those for our next trip. I tried to get them for our last trip, but he didn't respond to my Instagram message in time.

Lori Talamo (40:16.109)
Yes, I've seen those.

Lori Talamo (40:25.345)
I'm sure they probably have somebody on Etsy too that would make that. I get a lot of my stuff from Etsy.

Fred Briley (40:31.766)
I have a Captain America baseball cap that somebody sewed ears on. That's the only ears that I have. And my Santa hat ears. I should have worn my Santa hat. well, it's too late. It's too late.

Lori Talamo (40:44.727)
Yeah, is that did the girls have that on for y'all family pictures at church? Yeah, cute

Fred Briley (40:48.046)
Christmas photo. Yeah. Yeah, they love.

Alright, last one.

Lori Talamo (40:56.929)
Okay, you have any, can you even remotely guess what you think it might be?

Fred Briley (41:01.6)
So, I got that.

Lori Talamo (41:03.783)
I want a lifetime supply of pumpkin spice macaron ice cream sandwiches.

Fred Briley (41:09.558)
Macaroon. There you go. Okay. As soon as you said pumpkin, was like, I know where she's going with this.

Lori Talamo (41:16.095)
Yes. my gosh. I could just taste it right now. Those things are so good. That's the only thing that I'm a little like if I, cause if we go later in the fall, I'm not going to be able to get that next year. So that's the only reason why I would not want to go during that fall time because I'm going to miss that. But, but maybe they'll have another seasonal one that I love just as much.

Fred Briley (41:35.03)
Yeah, the winter time.

Fred Briley (41:41.624)
They'll never had it. They brought it out like a week after we left, I think. I think we left the 20th, 20th, 21st, and then they didn't have it. And then you went a couple of weeks later and they had it. But Epcot, like I said, doesn't transition to like Halloween until like October 1st. So.

Lori Talamo (41:45.901)
Man, it's so good.

Lori Talamo (41:59.703)
Yeah. Yeah. I'm like, there's gotta be somebody around here gonna make something similar.

Fred Briley (42:07.47)
I'm sure you can find somebody. It's New Orleans.

Lori Talamo (42:08.697)
So good. Yeah, I'm gonna try. gonna have to wait till next year, but I'm gonna look it up.

Fred Briley (42:13.87)
Mine is an endless supply of pineapple banana bread from Ohana. Fabulous stuff. When we left, when we went back in September, we had like a whole thing left of it and the guy was like, do you want to go, Trace? I was like, yes. was like, give it, give me all the pineapple bread. Cause that's really all I ate. I really.

Lori Talamo (42:22.937)
So good. Yeah.

Lori Talamo (42:33.165)
Yes, give it all to me.

Fred Briley (42:40.888)
I didn't eat anything else for breakfast other than really the pineapple bread.

Lori Talamo (42:46.209)
Yeah, I remember before I went there and people would talk about it and like I just envisioned like the Hawaiian rolls like that you can buy in the store. But when I had it, I was like, gosh, this is nothing like that. It's so good.

Fred Briley (42:53.698)
Yeah. Mm-hmm. Yes.

See, I can look up a recipe for that and make it. I'm sure you could look up a recipe for your pumpkin, macaroon, ice cream things and make them yourself.

Lori Talamo (43:04.303)
There you go.

Lori Talamo (43:10.059)
Yeah, but I don't know. I guess I could buy some pumpkin macarons from a bakery and then just whip up the ice cream.

Fred Briley (43:12.716)
Yeah.

Fred Briley (43:16.45)
Yeah. Goals for next year.

Lori Talamo (43:20.269)
Speaking of recipes, I did tell Olivia that you said you could make butter beer. she's looking for some butter beer one of these days.

Fred Briley (43:29.608)
shit alright I'll make some up when I come back man alright that's 12 of them I'm proud of my list

Lori Talamo (43:37.817)
So yeah.

12 things and I'm sure, yeah, I'm sure there's probably so much more things. But it's crazy when you're trying to sit down and like, okay, what things do I really want? It was a little more, a little more challenging, but it was fun. It really made me stop and think about what are the things that I really love about Disney and.

Fred Briley (43:53.708)
Yeah.

These are my 12th Yeah.

Lori Talamo (44:08.109)
you know, what makes you want to keep going back. And there's just so many things that makes it amazing that I feel like you could sit and talk about it all day.

Fred Briley (44:17.686)
It's sad that most of mine is food, but we've had the conversation before. I'm very food motivated. Like, like I see people all the time just complaining about Disney food. And I think we talked about this last week or the week before last. can't remember, but like Disney food is like, if you eat at the right place, like Disney food is where it's at every time for me.

See you.

Lori Talamo (44:43.309)
Yeah, and I think we've talked about it before and maybe even with Dave and Tony in last week where I can't, I can't remember now. like people that say, the food at Disney is terrible. Like just really aren't going to the right places. There's so much good food.

Fred Briley (44:59.99)
Yeah. No.

Fred Briley (45:05.25)
Yeah, which we'll talk about in a couple upcoming episodes. should make that part of a we should make that we'll talk. We should make talk about some of our favorite places to eat when we talk food and dining. So next week. We're talking about something.

Lori Talamo (45:18.628)
Yeah.

Definitely.

Lori Talamo (45:29.313)
Next week is...

is next week to 2024.

Fred Briley (45:36.27)
I think so.

Lori Talamo (45:37.891)
Let me pull up the schedule.

Fred Briley (45:39.758)
Yeah, I think it's the 2024 recap and what to look forward to in 2025, I think.

Lori Talamo (45:50.223)
Ugh.

Here we go. January. Because next week, what is, next week is December 29th,

Fred Briley (45:59.126)
It is.

Lori Talamo (46:02.455)
Yeah, 2024 highlights is next week.

Fred Briley (46:02.92)
name. Okay, I need a script for that.

Lori Talamo (46:08.195)
I got you. I got you for that one. This one, this one we had to come up with our own things, but I'll get you a script for next week. I'll go through and hit. And I guess too, do we want to, we want to throw in Universal and Disney in there?

Fred Briley (46:10.572)
Hey.

Fred Briley (46:27.246)
Isn't it? We can.

Lori Talamo (46:28.527)
and we can talk about it.

Fred Briley (46:31.118)
So yeah, next week should be good episode as we close out the year. I think one of the things I forgot to say at the very beginning is that for those who are listening to this on audio only or on our YouTube channel come Wednesday, Merry Christmas from going beyond the castle because it will be Christmas Day when we drop this episode, the edited version onto our platforms.

and then next week we'll head into 2025. Will that be our first episode of 2025? Or no, it drops on New Year's, New Year's Eve, doesn't it? No. Yeah. No, New Year's Eve is Tuesday.

Lori Talamo (47:10.532)
Well...

Yeah, New Year's Eve. think initially when we were doing a week out, I thought we would have like January 1 wrapping it up, but yeah. So we have something.

Fred Briley (47:21.933)
Yeah.

Lori Talamo (47:26.767)
I don't remember what the first week is, but...

We got it all planned out. maybe that'll be something else we'll start sharing too, is sharing what our upcoming episodes are.

Fred Briley (47:32.611)
Yeah.

Fred Briley (47:38.686)
Yeah, I think...

Lori Talamo (47:41.386)
once I get better with the social media.

Fred Briley (47:43.586)
You're doing fabulous. Keep up the great work. So the episode on January. Yeah, so on the 5th, we've got Shelly come on to talk Disney treasure. think the 12th. The 12th of the 19th, we're dining and then is it the 19th that. My fellow travel agents coming on to talk allergies at Disney.

Lori Talamo (47:50.809)
Disney Treasure.

Lori Talamo (48:02.595)
We got the dining plans.

Lori Talamo (48:11.992)
Mm-hmm.

Fred Briley (48:14.646)
And then the 27th, we've got Virgin Cruises coming on our podcast.

Lori Talamo (48:20.791)
Yes, we have rule from Virgin Voyages, which is, in my opinion, one of the best cruise lines that I've been on. So that'll be exciting. He does. What's that?

Fred Briley (48:28.62)
Yeah. So we got a lot of good stuff coming up for 2025. I was just saying, so yeah, we got a lot of good stuff coming up for 2025.

Lori Talamo (48:37.955)
Yeah, and he does a good job explaining to the background of the cruise line, so that'll be interesting. And we can get some cruises. We haven't done cruises yet on here, so that'll be fun.

Fred Briley (48:44.11)
Yeah, I'm excited for that one.

Yeah, yeah, it's cruises and food is the theme of January. So, OK, cool, cool. Anything else before we wrap up?

Lori Talamo (48:54.212)
Yep.

Lori Talamo (48:58.451)
No, I think that's it. I appreciate y'all hanging with us. I know this was a little different episode, but I thought it'd be fun to just kind of, yeah, going through our favorite things, seeing if anybody matches up. y'all can share with us in the comments what some of your favorite things are or some of your wish lists for Disney.

Fred Briley (49:11.159)
Yeah.

Fred Briley (49:20.12)
Yep. Okay, cool, cool. Well, with that being said, thanks for joining us. As always, please like, follow, and subscribe to all of our channels and share our stuff. That would be fabulous if you could share our videos so that way we could reach more people. Best way to find Going Beyond the Castle is through our Beacons channel at beacons.ai forward slash going beyond the castle podcast.

You can always reach us by email at info at going beyond the castle

Lori Talamo (49:56.429)
Yes.

Fred Briley (49:57.262)
Yeah So yeah again, please like try like share and subscribe our stuff and we will talk to you guys next week and With that being said, what is that? Look at you

Lori Talamo (50:09.751)
I had it prepared in case you were going to make me close. I was going to cheat.

Fred Briley (50:16.276)
Now I know that you're gonna cheat. With that being said, happy Merry Christmas and we will talk to you guys next week.

Lori Talamo (50:25.006)
Bye.

Fred Briley (50:25.975)
Bye bye.

Fred Briley (50:32.622)
It's a wrap.